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    Attachment to the Nation and International Relations: Dimensions of Identity and Their Relationship to War and Peace

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    Since the rise of mass politics, the role national identities play in international relations has been debated. Do they produce a popular reservoir easily tapped for war or bestow dignity thereby fostering cooperation and a democratic peace? The evidence for either perspective is thin, beset by different conceptions of identity and few efforts to identify its effects independent of situational factors. Using data drawn from new national surveys in Italy and the United States, we advance a three-dimensional conception of national identity, theoretically connecting the dimensions to conflictive and cooperative dispositions as well as to decisions to cooperate with the United Nations in containing Iran’s nuclear proliferation and Sudan’s humanitarian crisis in Darfur. Attachment to the nation in Italy and the United States is found to associate with less support for militarist options and more support for international cooperation as liberal nationalists expect. This depends, however, on containing culturally exclusive conceptions of the nation and chauvinism

    La partecipazione al voto

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    Il capitolo analizza i dati delle rilevazioni elettorali Itanes degli ultimi decenni con attenzione particolare sulle elezioni del 2006 e 2008. Il tema del capitolo è la partecipazione elettorale in Italia. Gli aspetti studiati sono: a) l'evoluzione generale nel tempo; b) le caratteristiche socio-demografiche degli elettori astenuti; c) le caratteristiche socio-politiche degli elettori astenuti; d) il confronto tra modelli teorici concorrenti di spiegazione dell'astensionismo; e) il confronto tra tipologie diverse di astenuti (cronici e intermittenti) in relazione al ciclo elettoral

    Stable voters in an unstable party environment : continuity and change in Italian electoral behaviour

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    M.24981-1999 Paolo Segatti, Paolo Bellucci and Marco Maraffi. 30 cm. A previous version of this paper was presented at a symposium on Political Parties : Changing Roles in Contemporary Democracies, held at the Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences of the Juan March Institute, Madrid, December 15-17, 1994. -- P.1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-59
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